I'm Elizabeth Hotson and in today's Business Daily, I'll be finding out how the craft beer

industries been faring during the coronavirus pandemic.

The crisis has impacted all brewers and that has affected smaller independent brewers

disproportionately harder. And why adapting a business model can turn into a logistical nightmare.

There's also currently a shortage of CO2.

So we're having issues being able to package as much beer as we'd like to.

But could the current crisis present new opportunities?

Many consumers started consuming craft beer because there was no other products.

This is Business Daily from the BBC.

Can I get a pint of the verdant light bowl please?

Thank you.

I'm doing one of my favourite things, sitting in a pub garden, having a pint.

But this is a luxury I've only recently been able to enjoy again.

For several months during lockdown, when pubs and bars were closed,

I was either buying cans at the supermarket or getting them delivered.

Statistics vary as to how much alcohol

we were consuming over lockdown. For example, in the UK, market research company Opinium

found that whilst 20% of respondents said they were drinking more frequently, nearly 50% of light

drinkers had cut their drinking down or stopped altogether.

And the figures vary by country too.

But one thing many places had in common is a change in the way that alcohol and especially

beer was consumed.

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